Why does a cell tower need to be massive to transmit data to a smartphone but the phone’s extremely small antenna can transmit data back over the same distance?

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Why does a cell tower need to be massive to transmit data to a smartphone but the phone’s extremely small antenna can transmit data back over the same distance?

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A cell tower will be talking to several dozen or even hundreds of phones at the same time, a phone is only talking to one cell tower, so the tower needs much more bandwidth than any individual phone

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